Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@Kayak many knife sharpening tools say very specifically that they don't work on scissors 🤔

@arossp (although I have twice appeared *on* a podcast, these were also roughly a decade apart)

@arossp if it makes you feel better I don’t listen to any podcasts. At least a 4-5x slowdown compared to just reading the content

@lindsey @dan @lenary Display name can still be "PLMinusContext" though

@astrid I’m of the “those who can’t remember the past are doomed to repeat it” school of thought. Especially given the current controversy surrounding gain-of-function research at BU.

@astrid I'm curious how many of the respondents have been keeping up with the latest developments in the debate. https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-origin-wuhan-lab

@arossp @fakegreekgrill he got banished not for any theological heterodoxy, but for having the audacity to suggest maybe the good folks of Massachusetts shouldn’t try to forcibly impose their beliefs on the local native tribes

@arossp @fakegreekgrill this is the literal origin story of Rhode Island (or more accurately Providence Plantations), leading directly to Roger Williams subsequent invention of separation of church and state

@arjen @enbrown the technical building blocks **mostly** exist to build a replacement that would render such legislation irrelevant, but they haven't been assembled in the right way yet...

@lzg I thought this was supposed to be the non-bird-site

@ingmar did that too 🤣

@ingmar (a) okay but it’s *on* Disney+ (b) the Filoni oeuvre is consistently politically aware and eg Clone Wars S7 and Bad Batch have also been made since the Disney+ era began

@ingmar Are we ignoring Dave Filoni’s work on Rebels for some reason?